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2020 Grand Prix (Tel Aviv, ISR) Day #2 Recap Finally, in the last day of the Tel Aviv GP, the Home Nation hit the headlines and won 2 of the last 5 weight categories thanks to their big men (Peter Paltchik, -100kg and Or Sasson, +100kg)... the 3rd and last men's event from today instead was won by South Korea (Gwak Dong Han, -90kg) and this also gave the Asians the final victory in the medal table... the last 2 women's Gold Medals, on the other hand, went to Great Britain (Natalie Powell, -78kg) and France (Romane Dicko, +78kg)... the final Medal Table, as written before, was won by South Korea with 3 Gold Medals, followed by Great Britain, Israel and Japan with 2 Gold Medals each... Australia, Slovenia, Italy, France and Russia completed the list of Gold Medal winners with one Gold Medal each... Full Results http://www.ippon.org/gp_isr2020.php Day #3 Medal Session Replay

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA) Medallists Recap (Part #2) women's Individual Kumite, -50kg Gold: Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu Silver: Miho Miyahara Bronze: Junna Tsukii & Radwa Sayed women's Individual Kumite, -55kg Gold: Anna Cernysheva Silver: Anzhelika Terliuga Bronze: Wen Tzu-Yun & Carlota Fernandez Osorio women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold: Merve Coban Silver: Yin Xiaoyan Bronze: Leila Heurtault & Gwendoline Philippe women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold: Irina Zaretska Silver: Feryal Abdelaziz Bronze: Alisa Buchinger & Gong Li women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold: Hamideh Abbasali Silver: Meltem Hocaoglu Akyol Bronze: Anne Laure Florentin & Sohila Abouismail men's Individual Kumite, -60kg Gold: Eray Samdan Silver: Darkhan Assadilov Bronze: Oussama Edari & Christos-Stefanos Xenos men's Individual Kumite, -67kg Gold: Steven Dacosta Silver: Luca Maresca Bronze: Rafiz Hasanov & Yves Lamotte men's Individual Kumite, -75kg Gold: Bahman Askari Silver: Logan Dacosta Bronze: Joaquin Gonzalez Lavin & Luigi Busà men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold: Mohamed Ahmed Ramadan Silver: Ryutaro Araga Bronze: Wu Chun-Wei & Ugur Aktas men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold: Gogita Arkania Silver: Dnylson Jacquet Bronze: Saleh Abazari & Jonathan Horne

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA) Medallists Recap (Part #1) women's Individual Kata Gold: Sandra Sanchez Jaime Silver: Viviana Bottaro Bronze: Kiyou Shimizu & Hikaru Ono men's Individual Kata Gold: Ryo Kiyuna Silver: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze: Alì Sofuoglu & Kazumasa Moto women's Team Kata Gold: Spain Silver: Italy Bronze: Morocco & Russia men's Team Kata Gold: Turkey Silver: Spain Bronze: Italy & Morocco

Paris 2020 Gold Medal matches replays (most likely a good VPN is required also for this one)...

2 years ago, when they also met in the world championships final (and while Popescu won both Doha's matches, Navarria won the title in Wuxi)...

2020 Short Track European Championships, Final Medal Table NED, 5 / 3 / 1 HUN, 4 / 3 / 0 RUS, 2 / 1 / 4 ITA, 1 / 4 / 4 BEL, 0 / 1 / 0 GER, 0 / 0 / 1 ISR, 0 / 0 / 1 POL, 0 / 0 / 1

women's 3000m Relay Gold: Netherlands Silver: Italy Bronze: Russia men's 5000m Relay Gold: Russia Silver: Netherlands Bronze: Italy

and here you go...Popescu vs Navarria is today's final match...

men's 3000m Superfinal Gold: Semen Elistratov Silver: Stijn Desmet Bronze: Itzhak De Laat men's Overall Competition, Final Ranking Gold: Shaoang Liu, 77 pts Silver: Shaolin Sandor Liu, 75 pts Bronze: Semen Elistratov, 65 pts 4th, Itzhak De Laat, 50 pts 5th, Stijn Desmet, 34 pts 6th, Vladislav Bykanov, 23 pts 7th, Daan Breeuwsma, 8 pts 8th, Yuri Confortola, 7 pts Full Ranking https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000074&gen=m&ref=64362&view=ocl

women's 3000m Superfinal Gold: Arianna Fontana Silver: Ekaterina Efremenkova Bronze: Martina Valcepina women's Overall Competition, Final Ranking Gold: Suzanne Schulting, 102 pts Silver: Arianna Fontana, 68 pts Bronze: Martina Valcepina, 34 pts 4th, Lara Van Ruijven, 32 pts 5th, Ekaterina Efremenkova, 30 pts 6th, Natalia Maliszewska, 24 pts 7th, Cynthia Mascitto, 14 pts 8th, Hanne Desmet, 13 pts Full Ranking https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000074&gen=w&ref=64362&view=ocl

women's 1000m Gold: Suzanne Schulting Silver: Lara Van Ruijven Bronze: Arianna Fontana men's 1000m Gold: Shaolin Sandor Liu Silver: Shaoang Liu Bronze: Semen Elistratov

Men's Individual Epee Grand Prix (Doha, QAT) Women & Men's "Final Four" Live Streaming (running right now)

Men's Individual Epee Grand Prix (Doha, QAT) Final Results Gold: Sergey Bida Silver: Alexandre Bardenet Bronze Masaru Yamada & Andrea Santarelli Semifinals: Bida b. Yamada 15-8 Bardenet b. Santarelli 15-10 Gold Medal Match: Bida b. Bardenet 15-6  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/387

Women's Individual Epee Grand Prix (Doha, QAT) Final Results Gold: Ana Maria Popescu Silver: Mara Navarria Bronze: Erika Kirpu & Tatyana Andryushina Semifinals: Navarria b. Kirpu 15-13 Popescu b. Andryushina 15-5 Gold Medal Match: Popescu b. Navarria 15-9  Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/79

not that the Italian team looks a lot better...we still have to send true "veterans" like Moelgg, Gross, Razzoli down the slopes because we only have a couple of decent slalom specialists...

bronze medal finals (live right now)... but I think you need a good VPN to make it work...

yes, he's Seb's son (he's already 21, however...I thought he was younger)...

actually, it's been a disaster for quite a while now...since the last major update last autumn, they've gone back to the unwatchable 25 fps pictures... and their streams are having a lot of troubles all week long...it all started last sunday/monday when the tennis tournament in Melbourne opened the doors...I'm not following tennis, but it's all week that I'm reading they have a lot of worldwide troubles, with matches missing completely, others being cut at the beginning or at the end, picture quality lowering down every while... tbh, they are by far the worst sport OTT service among all those I normally use from a technical point of view... in this sense, they're not worth even the 25€ for 1 year I paid for on the last Black Friday (and I subscribed only because of the Olympics and because I fear they're going to heat up the price when the Olympics come)... luckily, I have a lotr of options thanks to my satellite dish and I can avoid using EuspPlayer and/or the Italian tv (rai)... you're lucky if you don't understand what they say... otherwise you wouldn't be so happy to follow almost any sport on that tv channel...

and it's another day to remember for the Italian Snowboard... after Roland Fischnaller's second place in the PSL earlier this afternoon (consolidating his leading position in the Alpine Disciplines World Cup Standings), Italy just completed another "double" in Snowboardcross, with the Olympic Champion Michela Moioli dominating a very complicated race (long and difficult track + thick fog) among the girls (with also Raffaella Brutto on the podium, 3rd place for her at the end of the day) and Omar Visintin winning the men's event...

Austria’s Thomas Steu suffers severe injury The Austrian Thomas Steu has broken his left tibia and fibula in a crash during training in Sigulda. His partner Lorenz Koller came away with bruising. As such, the season has ended early for the pair, who finished third in the overall World Cup and won two European Championship medals in Lillehammer. The news was announced in a press release by the Austrian Luge Federation (ÖRV). Steu and his partner Lorenz Koller also won World Championship bronze in 2019, along with World Championship silver for Austria in the team relay. After receiving first aid at the track, the 25-year-old from Vorarlberg was transported to hospital in Riga, where his ankle was repositioned and set during a 90-minute operation. It is not yet clear whether he injured any ligaments or tendons.

awful day for Italy...not a single fighter reached the medal matches in Kumite...and a truly wasted chance for Semeraro to catch Quirici in the OQR, as the Swiss lost in her first match, meanwhile Semeraro lost in the pool final against Someya, who unfortunately lost her following fight in the semifinals, preventing thus the Italian to get into the repechage tree (and potentially reach the Bronze Medal final, which would have given our karateka a lot of points in the standings)... instead, she only made up about 30/40 points on the Swiss girl...

Karate1 Premier League, Stage #1 (Paris, FRA) Day #2 action recap... men's Individual Kata Gold Medal match: Ryo Kiyuna vs Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Bronze Medal match #1: Alì Sofuoglu vs Emre Vefa Goktas Bronze Medal match #2: Antonio Diaz vs Kazumasa Moto women's Team Kata Gold Medal match: Spain vs Italy Bronze Medal match #1: Morocco vs Germany Bronze Medal match #2: Portugal vs Russia women's Individual Kumite, -61kg Gold Medal match: Yin Xiaoyan vs Merve Coban Bronze Medal match #1: Barno Mirzaeva vs Leila Heurtault Bronze Medal match #2: Gwendoline Philippe vs Ayami Moriguchi women's Individual Kumite, -68kg Gold Medal match: Feryal Abdelaziz vs Irina Zaretska Bronze Medal match #1: Melissa Bratic vs Alisa Buchinger Bronze Medal match #2: Kayo Someya vs Gong Li women's Individual Kumite, +68kg Gold Medal match: Hamideh Abbasali vs Meltem Hocaoglu Akyol Bronze Medal match #1: Aleksandra Stubleva vs Anne Laure Florentin Bronze Medal match #2: Ayumi Uekusa vs Sohila Abouismail men's Individual Kumite, -84kg Gold Medal match: Ryutaro Araga vs Mohamed Ahmed Ramadan Bronze Medal match #1: Ivan Kvesic vs Wu Chun-Wei Bronze Medal match #2: Ugur Aktas vs Nikola Malovic men's Individual Kumite, +84kg Gold Medal match: Dnylson Jacquet vs Gogita Arkania Bronze Medal match #1: Saleh Abazari vs Tareg Hamedi Bronze Medal match #2: Jonathan Horne vs Mehdi Filali

Hempel World Cup Series, Stage #2 (Miami, Fla., USA) Medallists Recap women's 470 Gold: Camille Lecointre & Aloise Retornaz Silver: Tina Mrak & Veronika Macarol Bronze: Agnieszka Skrzypulec & Jolanta Ogar men's 470 Gold: Jordi Xammar Hernandez & Nicolas Rodriguez Garcia-Paz Silver: Keiju Okada & Jumpei Hokazono Bronze: Mathew Belcher & William Ryan women's Laser Radial Gold: Erika Reineke Silver: Vasileia Karachaliou Bronze: Nethra Kumanan men's Laser Gold: Stefano Peschiera Silver: Francisco Guaragna Rigonat Bronze: Enrique Josè Arathoon Pacas women's RS:X Gold: Demita Vega De Lille Silver: Mariana Aguilar Bronze: Megumi Komine men's RS:X Gold: Pedro Pascual Silver: Ignacio Berenguer Bronze: Juozas Bernotas men's Finn Gold: Caleb Paine Silver: Kyle Martin Bronze: Luke Muller

for the joy of the home audience, the men's fight for the overall title seems to be an all-Hungarian (actually, an all-Liu family) affair... De Laat doesn't seem to have the right weapons against the Hungarian brothers, especially on the mid/longer distances and Elistratov doesn't look in his best shape...I don't think he can turn things around in tomorrow's races... meanwhile the women's Overall is only Schulting to lose...both the Italian main contenders, in fact, did some capital mistakes in 1 of today's 2 races and were beaten by the Dutch also in the other one...moreover, Valcepina won't be in the 1000m quarterfinals, which means that she mathematically doesn't have any chance to improve her score in that distance... only Fontana could try what would be an amazing comeback, but the chances are really slim, as Schulting now only need to control the Italian star in tomorrow's races to take the title home... good for Italy that we also did qualify both Relays to the "A" Final, even if I don't see the men going on the podium... the expectations are instead a lot higher among the girls, as ITA and NED should be well ahead of their continental rivals, if they don't make big mistakes...

men's 5000m Relay Teams qualified to the "A" Final Netherlands Russia Italy Hungary